This is just one more reason why your ticket scares me! I am a very educated, well-informed person with 3 University degrees (one in science). When you lose, please don't bring HER back in 2012...I am begging you.

Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor's identity, campaign officials confirmed.

Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its accounts, aides acknowledged. Instead, the campaign is scrutinizing its books for improper donations after the money has been deposited.

Honestly, I think the McCain camp has gone paranoid. Prepaid phone cards, a "PLO" associate (who McCain funded less than 10 years ago)-living in the same city as Ayers...must be a plot, Palin hinting at Obama's communism. They've lost their damn minds. No way I want him near the nukes.

Sorry Matthew, but Obama's support is coming from regular old Americans like me. Citizens of the United States who don't have tons of money to splurge but are willing to invest what little money we have in a candidate who will bring real change.

I'm proud to have helped make tonight's message from Obama possible. Don't be a crybaby just because your candidate chose to accept public donations because he knew he didn't have the popular support to fund his campaign without taking taxpayer dollars.

GOTV is off the chain here in South FL. Potential volunteers are literally being turned away or being told "we'll get back to you.. we're pretty booked up right now." No kidding. The field office on North Beach was so packed today you could barely get inside.. Kick A$$!!

"The Obama team's disclosures came in response to questions from The Washington Post about the case of Mary T. Biskup, a retired insurance manager from Manchester, Mo., who turned up on Obama's FEC reports as having donated $174,800 to the campaign. Contributors are limited to giving $2,300 for the general election.

Biskup, who had scores of Obama contributions attributed to her, said in an interview that she never donated to the candidate. "That's an error," she said. Moreover, she added, her credit card was never billed for the donations, meaning someone appropriated her name and made the contributions with another card."

Sounds to me that there is a big screwup and definite lack of accountability by the Obama campaign in the financial realm. I am an accountant, I should know.

Who is overseeing that all this money gets refunded to these credit cards? Are we supposed to just trust the campaign to make sure it all gets refunded? Is this the guy we want with his hands on our tax dollars??

Big campaign donors typically come with deep pockets and influence. But in Illinois this election cycle, no one not running for office himself has given more to the nation's federal campaigns than Shi Sheng Hao of Roselle, a virtual unknown in business and political circles.

Before September 2007, Hao's name had never appeared in the 15-year-old federal database of campaign contributors. Since then, however, his donations have topped $120,000 — including $70,100 on a single June day to Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Over the same time frame, a network of Hao relatives has kicked in more. The take from this group over the last 13 months exceeds $269,000, a small amount to Democrats but most of it to McCain and the Republican National Committee, records show.

Hao didn't register to vote at the northwest suburban address attached to his donations until October 2007, a month after he wrote his first political check, $25,000 to the RNC.

The circumstances surrounding Hao's sudden and prolific political activism are curious and his whereabouts unclear. His name isn't listed on property records or the mailbox at the unassuming tract home listed on his donations. Hao lives "overseas," insisted a man who answered the door at the Roselle home recently. The man declined to identify himself.

The story of Hao—whose varied roster of business associates appears to include a Taiwanese government investment arm as well as the mastermind of a decade-old Democratic fundraising scandal — is an eyebrow-raiser in the current election climate.

the only time internal polls are helpful is when the major polling firms aren't regularly conducting polling (for example, in the primaries). In those cases the candidates' polls can be more up to date and accurate. For Christ to claim that McCain has some secret poll that shows him up by several points is complete malarky. If McCain had such a poll, he would release it as it would help create a perception of momentum for him in the state. It's absolute B.S.! They probably are trying to steal the election in FL and are using these phony internal polls to justify it.

Matthew6:33: I have a question? Why would a campaign attempt to "hide" an illegal contribution well above the legal limits by putting it right there on the public list of contributions that they reported. Maybe a typo...or someone putting down a weong digit on a credit card #?

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